Data Engineering Job Trends in Edinburgh

Data Engineering
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Edinburgh requiring Data Engineering skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 49 66
Rank change year-on-year -14 +17 +32
Permanent jobs citing Data Engineering 6 21 21
As % of all permanent jobs in Edinburgh 0.56% 2.67% 1.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 2.85% 1.94%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 13
10th Percentile £54,149 £32,250 -
25th Percentile £73,982 £41,250 £35,105
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £97,500 £73,750 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +32.20% +5.36% +27.27%
75th Percentile £112,500 £95,000 £71,750
90th Percentile - - £87,007
Scotland median annual salary £100,000 £52,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +90.48% -25.00% +27.27%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

Data Engineering falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Edinburgh.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 737 736 1,083
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Edinburgh 68.49% 93.64% 84.74%
Number of salaries quoted 446 345 750
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,929 £35,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,851 £46,870
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,445 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.94% -15.93% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £71,250 £74,786
90th Percentile £96,250 £93,778 £97,500
Scotland median annual salary £50,000 £44,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% -20.00% -

Data Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Data Engineering relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Data Engineering job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Data Engineering
Salary Trend in Edinburgh

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Data Engineering.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Data Engineering

Data Engineering
Salary Histogram in Edinburgh

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Engineering in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Data Engineering in Edinburgh

Data Engineering
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (33.33%) dbt
2 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 2 (33.33%) SaaS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) Dagster
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (16.67%) Prefect
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Power BI
2 1 (16.67%) Big Data
2 1 (16.67%) Data Vault
2 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (16.67%) RDBMS
2 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) ERwin
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Games
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Data Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Lead Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Lead Data Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Agile Coach
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Data Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (16.67%) Sports Betting
2 1 (16.67%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 3 (50.00%) Data Management
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Data Architecture
3 2 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (33.33%) Data Science
3 2 (33.33%) Data Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 2 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (33.33%) ETL
3 2 (33.33%) Fintech
3 2 (33.33%) Master Data Management
3 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 2 (33.33%) Visualisation
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Clean Code
4 1 (16.67%) Customer Service
4 1 (16.67%) Product Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (16.67%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Databricks